A component identification technique from object-oriented model

Abstract

Today's software system environment requires rapid development and high productivity. In order to satisfy these requirements, researches have been working on the development of software reuse technology. Therefore, it is general to develop component-based software due to the advance of reuse technology nowadays. One of main issues raised in component-based development (CBD) is how to identify reusable and independent components. Existing methodologies have dealt with the problem based on only developer's heuristics, so that it is difficult to identify the components by common developers. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a new technique to identify the business components based on system component. The proposed technique applies the characteristics and degree of dependency between classes in object-oriented model. We also present a case study and experimental results to prove the practical use of our technique. We examined various examples to get the objective foundations. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005.